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| Jawed Karim | |
|---|---|
 Jawed Karim | |
| Born | 1979 Merseburg, East Germany |
| Ethnicity | Bengali-German |
| Website www.jawed.com | |
Jawed Karim (Bengali: জাওয়েদ করিম) (born 1979, East Germany) is a co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.
Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany, in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1980. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a German scientist and research associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.[1] [2]
Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his bachelor's degree in computer science in 2004.
While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005.[4] YouTube's first video[5] was uploaded by Jawed on April 23, 2005.[6]
After co-founding the company and developing the YouTube concept and website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an advisor to YouTube.[7] When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google's closing stock price at the time.[8]
In October 2006, Jawed gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at the University of Illinois' annual ACM Conference entitled YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth[9]. The lecture material also contained pictures and videos of Jawed, Chad and Steve from the garage days of YouTube. Jawed returned again to the University of Illinois in May 2007 as the 136th and youngest Commencement Speaker in the school's history.[10][11]
More recently, Jawed has launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures, with the goal of helping current and former university students to launch their business ideas.
[edit] References
- ^ With YouTube, Student Hits Jackpot Again, The New York Times, October 12, 2006.
- ^ Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder, USA Today, October 11, 2006.
- ^ YouTube: OurGuys, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science
- ^ Video websites pop up, invite postings, USA Today, November 21, 2005
- ^ YouTube's first video
- ^ jawed.com
- ^ YouTube Founders, YouTube.com
- ^ New York Times: YouTube’s Payoff: Hundreds of Millions for the Founders, The New York Times, February 7, 2007.
- ^ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssfmTo7SZg
- ^ Welcome to Engineering at Illinois, University of Illinois
- ^ 136th Commencement Address, University of Illinois, May 13, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Jawed Karim's Personal Website
- Jawed's YouTube Profile
- YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth
- Youniversity Ventures
- With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again - New York Times (Oct 12, 2006)
- Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder - USA TODAY (Oct 12, 2006)
- Whiz Kid: Jawed Karim, a graduate of St. Paul Central - Star Tribune (Oct 13, 2006)
- He went off to college to make his fortune - The News-Gazette (Oct 16, 2006)
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